Ishukone Corporation (NPC corporation)

Ishukone was for a long time the feeblest of the Caldari mega corporations, but contact with the Jovians changed that. Ishukone was the first company to establish trade links with the Jovians and received the capsule technology from the Jovians, which made Ishukone billions of ISK in revenue before other companies could catch up. Ishukone is still reaping the rewards of their good relations with the Jovians and it possesses the most advanced technology outside Jove space.

Additional Information

Ishukone is a corporation with a long and storied history in the Caldari State. A special point of pride for the company is their contribution of Jovian hydrostatic capsule technology to the war effort during the Gallente-Caldari War. Ishukone’s primary business model deals with the development of high-end technologies in fields such as advanced spacecraft engineering, electronics, medicine, and biotechnology.

The megacorporation is the leader of the liberal bloc in Caldari politics, a position it has held since Otro Gariushi seized control of the company during a period of complacency and decline in YC100. Under his leadership, the company advocated free market policies, relaxed trade barriers, and an easing of tensions between the State and the Gallente Federation. Gariushi also gave the company its reputation for being relatively employee friendly and for its ruthless competitive practices with rival companies. Despite the death of Gariushi in the Malkalen Disaster, his policies still cast a long shadow over the corporation, and the current leadership appears to be following in his footsteps.

As a result, Ishukone remains a reluctant partner in the Caldari Providence Directorate. With little choice but to go along with the Directorate after Gariushi's death, the corporate leadership remains of two minds about the situation. On the one hand, many board members support the meritocratic reforms instituted by the Directorate, which were similar to policies already in place under Gariushi. However, considerable resistance to the centralization of power and the Directorate's belligerence remains among the corporate leadership.

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History

Ishukone is one of the "Big Eight" megacorporations, and a member of the Caldari State's "Liberal" faction. Easily one of the smallest of the Megacorps, Ishukone was for a long time also one of the feeblest. This changed, and Ishukone became competitive with the other megacorporations, after they were gifted with capsule technology by the Jovians - a patent that has since proven highly lucrative.

Perhaps because of this contact with the Jove, Ishukone's technology is reckoned to be the best in the Caldari State, making Ishukone one of the most technologically advanced entities in the cluster. They are responsible for several popular and powerful ship designs, including the "Raven"-class battleship, the "Harpy" assault frigate and the "Vulture" Command Ship.

These lucrative patents have kept Ishukone stable in the world of Caldari economics ever since the Gallente-Caldari War, though the income from them has never quite been enough to allow the corporation to rest easy, and its fortunes have fluctuated over the years as the corporation has constantly searched for the next big "pipeline product" to keep it going. The most recent of these was to be Insorum, the antidote to the slavery drug Vitoc.

Ishukone Corporation in the News

Agents

Ishukone Corporation has a total of 105 agents across 4 divisions.

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Distribution

Mining

Research

Security

See Also

References

1. Mens Reppola made Ishukone CEO, Charts Future Course 2009.04.24